Surgery Doesn't Get Safer When Patient, Surgeon Are Same Gender

A female surgeon
By Ernie Mundell
1 min read

Key Takeaways

  • More women are becoming surgeons, and it's been unclear whether a having the same gender as your surgeon mattered to outcomes
  • New UCLA research suggests it does not, with little difference in 30-day post-op deaths based on surgeon-patient 'gender concordance'
  • Overall death rates remained low (2% or below), researchers found

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